http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/09/stuxnet-style-threat-prison-scada-systems.aspx By Kevin McCaney GCN.com Nov 09, 2011 Federal authorities have confirmed an assertion by security researchers earlier this year that Stuxnet-like malware poses a potential threat to controls at prisons and penitentiaries across the country. The researchers made their claim in a white paper published July 31, in which they say that the programmable logic controllers used to control doors, video systems, alarms and intercoms at prisons could be compromised and controlled remotely. They presented the paper at the recent Hacker Halted conference in Miami. Sean McGurk, who headed DHS’ efforts on industrial control systems security until leaving in September, told the Washington Times’ Shaun Waterman that DHS had examined the research at Idaho National Laboratory’s ICS test bed and “validated” the claims. A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons also told Waterman that the bureau is “aware of this research and taking it very seriously.” The research team — security engineer and former CIA operations officer John Strauchs; his daughter Tiffany Rad, president of ELCnetworks; and information security consultant Teague Newman — began their work after a prison warden asked Strauchs to look into why all the cell doors on the prisons’ death row popped open one Christmas Eve. [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Thu Nov 10 2011 - 00:15:12 PST
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